Five Dy Attorneys General fired

News Desk
Five deputy attorneys-general have been removed
through cancelling their appointments "in public
interest", an official announcement said.
The five DAGs are Zahirul Haque Zahir, Abdullah Al
Mamun, Md Jahangir Alam, Shaikh AKM Moniruzzaman
Kabir and Manjur Kader.
President Md Abdul Hamid has exempted five deputy
attorneys-general from their services "in public
interest", a law ministry notification said Tuesday.
The Ministry of Law issued a gazette notification to
this effect. Law Secretary ASSM Zahirul Haque signed
it.
In the notification the ministry didn't cite any
specific reason for the removal of the five DAGs.
According to sources at the Attorney-General Office,
there are now one attorney-general, two additional
attorneys-general, 75 deputy attorneys-general and
108 assistant attorneys-general to deal with the
cases on behalf of the state.
The government action, incidentally, came in the wake
of plethora of cases and writ petitions many of which
involve state and political matters of high public
interest.
Inputs taken from media reports